We're going! first time back up in the 2nd Section. New MD is still with us and........ we actually have a full band - in fact we've had to drop some players, which is quite a reverse of fortunes for us.

Looking forward to playing on the day, don't want to tempt fate and say anything else.

There are 23 in the 4th Section
15 in the 3rd
13 in the 2nd
13 in the 1st and 11 in the Championship which are
Aldbourne
Bournemouth Concert Brass
Camborne
Lydbrook
Mount Charles
Polysteel
Poole Borough
Sherborne Town
St Austell Town
SWT Woodfalls
Yeovil Town

3 weeks from today it will all be over for another year, but strangely everything is quiet on the discussion front.

here are my predictions for 1st place in each of the sections:

4th Section: Bream

Any guesses where I am from???

Seriously, good luck to all the forest bands. It will be strange not to be competing this year.

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Cheers K ,
We're all going ot plan, only worried about that lovely leisure center acoustic and that the band will be too big for it.:tup
Still interested about Brunel Brass - half of City of Bristol (?)

Cheers K ,
We're all going ot plan, only worried about that lovely leisure center acoustic and that the band will be too big for it.:tup
Still interested about Brunel Brass - half of City of Bristol (?)

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Glad to hear all is going to plan. Looks like a favourable half of the draw for you too. Perhaps you should hire Lydney Leisure Centre to get a "true sense of the acoustic of the venue" as Mr Hurdley suggested all bands should a few years ago! Hehe!

Great test piece for the 3rd section and what a test for the man in the middle i need to learn to count better though! Could be a very close contest though but im sure my band will do ok! (Camborne B) Whats the opinion on the test piece? Ta Dave

If as I have been informed that Bristol East and Kingswood have merged to create Brunel Brass the n how can Bristol East enter the 2nd section as well.

or have I been miss informed and had a perfectly good thread closed for no reason

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It is of course possible that original posting was wrong, and hopefully if that is the case someone will enlighten us. Either way, it seemed superfluous to have a specific thread on the go when there was already one running covering the West of England Area, which would seem the logical place to continue the discussion.